The CPU acquires the output of an angular velocity sensor and performs image shake correction. An angle 1 calculating unit integrates a signal from which an offset component is removed to calculate an angle 1. An angular velocity subtraction amount calculating unit calculates an angular velocity subtraction amount based on a signal obtained by subtracting a first offset from the output of the angular velocity sensor and a signal obtained by subtracting a second offset from the output of the angle 2 calculating unit. An angle 2 calculating unit integrates a signal obtained by subtracting the angular velocity subtraction amount from the output of the angular velocity sensor to calculate an angle 2. The CPU performs image shake correction based on the angle 1 prior to operation of a release SW, whereas the CPU performs image shake correction based on the angle 2 after operation of the release SW.
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1. An image shake correcting apparatus comprising: a shake detecting unit configured to detect shake; a calculating unit configured to calculate an image shake correction amount by acquiring a shake detection signal output from the shake detecting unit; and a shake correcting unit configured to correct image shake in accordance with the image shake correction amount calculated by the calculating unit, wherein the calculating unit comprises: a first offset calculating unit configured to calculate a first offset from the shake detection signal; a second offset calculating unit configured to calculate a second offset from the output of the calculating unit; and a subtraction amount calculating unit configured to calculate a subtraction amount by acquiring a signal obtained by subtracting the first offset from the shake detection signal and a signal obtained by subtracting the second offset from a previously-calculated image shake correction amount, and wherein the calculating unit integrates a signal obtained by subtracting the subtraction amount calculated by the subtraction amount calculating unit from the shake detection signal to calculate the image shake correction amount.
2. The image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the subtraction amount calculating unit compares a signal obtained by subtracting the output of the second offset calculating unit from the image shake correction amount with a threshold value to calculate a gain coefficient, and then multiplies a signal obtained by subtracting the first offset from the shake detection signal by the gain coefficient to calculate the subtraction amount.
3. The image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the subtraction amount calculating unit sets the gain coefficient to a larger value as the difference between a signal obtained by subtracting the output of the second offset calculating unit from the image shake correction amount and the threshold value increases.
4. The image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second offset calculating unit calculates the second offset by acquiring the image shake correction amount from a previous sampling.
5. The image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second offset calculating unit performs shake determination of an apparatus and then changes a followability to the image shake correction amount depending on a determination value to calculate the second offset.
6. The image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the second offset calculating unit comprises a determining unit configured to determine shake of the device by acquiring the shake detection signal and a low-pass filter, and changes a cut-off frequency of the low-pass filter using the determination value for shake determination by the determining unit.
7. The image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the cut-off frequency of the low-pass filter is set to low when the determining unit determines that shake of the device is greater than a threshold value, whereas the cut-off frequency of the low-pass filter is set to high when the determining unit determines that shake of the apparatus is less than a threshold value.
8. The image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second offset calculating unit acquires the output of the first offset calculating unit, and then multiplies the output by a time constant to calculate the second offset.
9. The image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the calculating unit further comprises: a first calculating unit configured to calculate a first image shake correction amount by acquiring the shake detection signal; a second calculating unit configured to calculate a second image shake correction amount by acquiring the shake detection signal; and a switching unit configured to perform switching between the first image shake correction amount and the second image shake correction amount, wherein image shake correction is performed based on the first image shake correction amount or the second image shake correction amount.
10. The image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the first calculating unit integrates a signal obtained by removing an offset from the shake detection signal to calculate the first image shake correction amount, and the second calculating unit calculates the subtraction amount using a signal obtained by subtracting the output of the first offset calculating unit from the shake detection signal and a signal obtained by subtracting the output of the second offset calculating unit from the second image shake correction amount acquired in the previous sampling, and then integrates a signal obtained by subtracting the subtraction amount from the shake detection signal to calculate the second image shake correction amount.
11. The image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the first calculating unit removes an offset from the shake detection signal using a high-pass filter.
12. The image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the first calculating unit subtracts the output of the second offset calculating unit from the second image shake correction amount acquired in the previous sampling to calculate the first image shake correction amount, and the second calculating unit calculates the subtraction amount using a signal obtained by subtracting the output of the first offset calculating unit from the shake detection signal and a signal obtained by subtracting the output of the second offset calculating unit from the second image shake correction amount acquired in the previous sampling, and then integrates a signal obtained by subtracting the subtraction amount from the shake detection signal to calculate the second image shake correction amount.
13. A lens barrel comprising: the image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 1 .
14. Optical apparatus comprising: The image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 1 .
15. An imaging apparatus comprising: the lens barrel according to claim 13 .
16. An imaging apparatus comprising: the image shake correcting apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the switching unit selects the second image shake correction amount during an imaging period and the switching unit selects the first image shake correction amount prior to imaging so that the shake correcting unit performs image shake correction.
17. A control method to be executed by an image shake correcting apparatus that comprises a shake detecting unit configured to detect shake; a calculating unit configured to calculate an image shake correction amount by acquiring a shake detection signal output from the shake detecting unit; and a shake correcting unit configured to correct image shake in accordance with the image shake correction amount calculated by the calculating unit, the method comprising: calculating, by the calculating unit, a first offset from the shake detection signal and a second offset from the output of the calculating unit; calculating, by the calculating unit, a subtraction amount by acquiring a signal obtained by subtracting the first offset from the shake detection signal and a signal obtained by subtracting the second offset from a previously-calculated image shake correction amount, and calculating, by the calculating unit, the image shake correction amount by integrating a signal obtained by subtracting the subtraction amount from the shake detection signal.
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